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Such talk leaves little space for people like Dave Richards, 37, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a target shooter who joined the N.R.A. to support the rights of sportsmen. Two years ago, Richards quit after concluding that the N.R.A. had become "more about lobbying for extremes than the mainstream people who just want to go hunting." A large number of those mainstream folks are now ex-members. Currently, four of every 10 members drop out when it comes time to renew their $35 annual membership. "All the smaller voices like mine," says hunter Ray Guzman, "aren't being heard." Speaking with...
...press wasn't as effective, so we're going to drop one defender from a weaker shooter onto her in the future," said Ford, who scored three goals. The drop is a strategy the Crimson son uses regularly in practice...
Police believe the shooter was a professional. He had studied Kunimatsu's movements and chosen his time carefully. But it was the assailant's marksmanship that most clearly separated his act from that of a rank amateur. At a distance of more than 65 ft., he fired four times and did not miss once, putting bullets through Kunimatsu's leg, chest and abdomen even as the police chief crumpled to the ground. Then the gunman hopped on a bicycle and disappeared...
Federal authorities know it would be foolhardy to regard the 12 names as anything other than a hit list, since doctors identified in antiabortion literature have a habit of becoming targets. Moreover, at least one shooter remains at large. Last October, McMillan was quoted in the New York Times Sunday magazine, apropos of the case in which Paul Hill killed a doctor in front of a clinic, as saying, "Why would a person do it publicly, when maybe he could have done it clandestinely, with a high-powered rifle ...'' Nine days later, Dr. Gary Romalis was gravely wounded...
...avid trouble-shooter and personally involved administrator, McArthur suffered only from occasional rumors of personal tensions with Rudenstine. Indeed, his sometimes-brusque manner could have put off some people. But McArthur made it through 15 years without any major fall-outs, a hard act to follow...